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Quotes About Persistence

The color of defeat chokes her pupils, even though her nod and smile and uncomfortable sitting motion on the couch indicate that she is not finished yet. She will carry on, like all of us. Smile stubborn. Smile with instinct, then lick your wounds in the darkest of corners. Trace the scars back to your own fingers and remember them.
~ Markus Zusak
For now, the idea was enough. It was indestructible. Transforming it into reality, well, that was something else altogether. For now, though, let's let him enjoy it. We'll give him seven months. Then we come for him. And oh, how we come.
~ Markus Zusak
It took three attempts to leave.
~ Markus Zusak
You'll have days of complete lack of faith in your abilities. But you have to keep coming back. That's when you know you're a writer – when you take the failures and appear at the desk again, over and over again.
~ Markus Zusak
They ignore the reality that a new version of the same old problem will be waiting at the end of the trip—
~ Markus Zusak
Keep living Ed...It's only the pages that stop here.
~ Markus Zusak
It's the story of one of those perpetual survivors—an expert at being left behind.
~ Markus Zusak
Belki kelimesi beni rahats?z etmeye baÅŸlam??t? çünkü sabit olan tek ÅŸey 'belkiler'in sonsuza dek benimle kalabilecek olmas?yd?.
~ Markus Zusak
A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.
~ Markus Zusak
having conquered not only the work at hand, but the
~ Markus Zusak
impoverished always try to keep moving, as if relocating might help.
~ Markus Zusak
moments of perfect tiredness, of having conquered not only the work at hand, but the night who had blocked the way.
~ Markus Zusak
Keep playing, Papa. Papa stopped.
~ Markus Zusak
Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque estén llorando a lágrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando y hallando.
~ Markus Zusak
Me maravilla lo que los humanos son capaces de hacer aunque estén llorado a lágrima viva, que sigan adelante, tambaleantes, tosiendo, rebuscando, hallando.
~ Markus Zusak
As they walked back to Himmel Street, Rudy forewarned her. One day, Liesel, he said, you'll be dying to kiss me.
~ Markus Zusak
A veces llego demasiado pronto, me adelanto. Y hay gente que se aferra a la vida más de lo esperado.
~ Markus Zusak
Ich fürchte ebenfalls, dass am Ende gar nichts zu Ende sein wird. Die Dinge gehen einfach weiter, solange die Erinnerung das Sagen hat und immer eine weiche Stelle in deinen Gedanken findet, um an die Oberfläche zu schlüpfen.
~ Markus Zusak
As weeks edge past us, he fights and wins and he doesn't bother shaving. He turns up and wins. Turns up and wins. He only smiles when *I* fight well.
~ Markus Zusak
Usually, if an idea keeps calling you back, it's the right one
~ Markus Zusak
Believe in your dreams and they may come true. Believe in yourself and they will surely come true.
~ Markus Zusak
Steady as she goes
~ Marlo Thomas
If it no go so, it go near so. —Jamaican proverb
~ Marlon James
A man will suffer misery to get to the bottom of truth, but he will not suffer boredom.
~ Marlon James